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MICROSOMAL
Definition of MICROSOMAL
adjective
Of or pertaining to a microsome
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From microsome + -al.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
MICROSOMAL in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 166, 2 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
Built from these letters
MICROSOMAL starts with M and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read ACILMMOORS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. M and O appear more than once.
Words that start MICROS
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found MICROSOMAL?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 166 - and most players walked straight past it.
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